Recent content by oznozz

(This was posted in another thread, with some mods to this version) I've been brewing all grain for a year. I think a significant amount of grain and appropriate, quality liquid yeast make worlds of difference in the outcome. You don't need anything too fancy. I brewed on Sunday with the...

Cheers! I've been obsessed with induction cooking hobs since I used them in Europe while visiting an X-girlfriend (man was I proud when that girl brought a gueze to a party and then started explaining what it was to her friends...) Imagine the ability to dial in a temp for your mash and walk...

My philosophy is "don't fight nature", so I found some yeast that allow me to brew when it's crazy hot. I spent summer a year ago living in the attic of a big house. It was regularly hot enough to cause a body to sweat while sleeping despite fans and open windows. A fellow at a homebrew shop...

I've been brewing all grain for a year. I think a significant amount of grain and appropriate, quality liquid yeast make worlds of difference in the outcome. You don't need anything too fancy. I brewed on Sunday with the following equipment : Mash Tun : 4x ~3.5 lbs of grain in homemade...

Since I haven't posted anything in ... well a while ... I'm the guy that fermented the cider on the Nottingham ale yeast cake from a pumpkin (squash) beer. At first taste, I thought my cider smelled nice and tasted kind of flat. It seems to be improving itself. Nowadays, the carbonated...

I finally bottled/mason jar-ed mine. I put 5 liters of non-carbonated brew into mason jars, since I was lacking a sufficient number of bottle caps to bottle everythnig. I had done the following : * 3 gallons cider, quick boil, cooled, pitched onto yeast cake from spiced pumpkin (really squash)...

I was wondering if I should rack to a secondary, considering my recipe/situation/etc. I've never done that, but at the moment I have insufficient bottle caps, and I'm worried about autolysis. quick review : * 3 gallons cider, quick boil, cooled, pitched onto yeast cake from spiced pumpkin...

I opted to pitch onto a yeast cake because I had read over and over that apple cider doesn't have proper amounts of lipids and minerals and other nutrients nessesary for yeast reproduction and I wanted it to go fast because I don't have enough fermentors to sacrifice one to a multi-month...

Numerous sites that I have read suggest that "real" cider should ferment for months and age for longer, so some people believe it's a good idea to age it for a long time. One site specifically said that you should start drinking last year's batch a year later, preferably while you are working...

A friend of mine solicited my advice and equipment after she found a few gallons of delicious, unpreserved apple cider. I haven't had time to read the whole forum, so hopefully I'm not repeating too much... Here's what we did : 4 gallons of cider had been sitting around for a few weeks...

Every time I've ever brewed sake, it has ended up a light straw color (so, somewhat yellowish), but it never caused any problems. I think that happened because of the type of rice I was using (brown rice from Korea). I've never heard of a straining bag, I usually let mine settle for a couple...

I agree. I think your type of unit would work well for extract/specialty grain brewing. It'd probably also work for partial mashes, as long as no more than 2.5 gallons of wort was run off (to leave room for the extract!). I was figuring that while you were heating the pot, maybe some heat...

With a 100% efficient, ideal system, it would have taken a .9kW unit 40 minutes to move 3 gallons of water 61 deg C. That means your setup is 70% efficient, which seems low considering the apparent 92+% efficiency of that Luxine system. more on that later... So, I would estimate that it...

Where did you find this metal bubble wrap? I'd use some! I hunted around online, but I didn't see anything like that mentioned The way I currently mash is to add hot water to grains in a pot and then collect all manner of blankets, towels and coats available and "insulate" it. Sometimes...

Thanks for the advice on the kettles. Have you tried drilling a hole in them for a spigot? I actually live in a college town, so I was thinking about checking out the local dump for kegs and then building my own keg based system. Unfortunately, that would exclude induction heating from my...